Every morning at 6:45 AM, Elena sat with her coffee and her laptop. She didn’t check the news. She checked the "New Additions" tab on the Hermes website. To the uninitiated, it looked like a simple e-commerce page. To Elena, it was a high-stakes battlefield of inventory management. The Near Misses Gone in three seconds.
Added to cart, but vanished during checkout.
Her heart hammered. Her fingers, trained by weeks of "Add to Cart" drills, moved with surgical precision. Apple Pay. Face ID.